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Mrs. Ericsson Hammond's salad appetizer cook book...

1924

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Presented as published in 1924. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
How to Make It. Butter the twelve slices of bread and cut them out with a medium patty cutter. Chop one gherkin, two olives, and the smallest piece of the lobster, leaving the best part of the lobster for decoration. Add the anchovy paste, mustard, pepper and salt to taste, and mix it with the butter that has been stirred to a cream. Spread this mixture on six of the slices, the other slices of bread put on the top with the butter up. In the center of each put one of the olives that has been stuffed with the mixture and arrange all around the lobster meat from the tails and the claws thathave been cut in heavy strips, Julienne style, aboutan inch in length and in between each put gherkin that is cut the same way. The rest of the stirred butter put in a paper bag that holds a fine tube and circle it all around the lobster and gherkins forming a net. The rest of the butter color a heavy orange shade with the butter coloring and decorate the olives with this butter. Leave in the ice-box until ready to serve; arrange in the form of a ring on a platter. Put in between each sandwich one of the small lobster claws and in the center put the head shell of the lobster with the addition of the tail and with sprigs of parsley in the head. Serve before the soup. Lobster Sandwiches a la Sweden Homard a la Suedoise For Six Persons Six slices of bread, one-half cup of lobster, one teaspoon of anchovy paste, one cup of whipped cream, three tablespoons of dissolved Cox’s gelatine, pepper and salt, spinach coloring and some truffles for decoration, and one half cup of artificial aspicLobster Sandwiches a la Sweden. How to Make It. Put the small moulds in the shape of a leaf on cracked ice and glaze them with the aspic. Decorate them with truffles. Take one half of the cream, mix with one spoon of the gelatine, color it the shade of light green. Line the forms with the green cream and fill. Mix the rest of the cream with the lobster and anchovy paste, two spoons of gelatine, and the pepper and salt to taste. Fill the mould, and leave on ice until ready to serve. Turn out on thin slices of buttered bread, the same size as 22 MRS. ERICSSON HAMMOND’S COOK BOOK the lobster in form of a ring. Arrange on a platter on a paper doily and garnish with lemon and the small lobster claws all around, and the head shell with parsley in the center. Shrimp Sandwiches with Oyster k la Archibald Sandwiches de Crevettes aux Huitres & V Archibald For ten sandwiches take ten slices of bread, one quart of cooked oysters, one pound of small cooked shrimps, a teaspoonful of anchovy paste, three tablespoonfuls of butter, pepper and saltShrimp Sandwiches with Oyster a la Archibald.